Colin Demarest, Defense News:
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle will duke it out for each order stemming from the Pentagon’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, an arrangement defense officials said will promote price and product competition.
While exactly how many orders will be made on the potential $9 billion contract is not known, the task order competition process should take weeks or “maybe a few months” to execute, depending on the specifics and lessons learned along the way, Sharon Woods, the Defense Information Systems Agency Hosting and Compute Center director, told reporters Dec. 8.
Pentagon wants competition within $9B Joint Warfighting Cloud contract (defensenews.com)
